One day in 2006 or thereabouts when I was still living in Southern California, I found myself in Hollywood at Amoeba Records in a position I often took when I visited there: laying down flat on my stomach, with the […]
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By Ted Slowik A classic debate that runs across many genres of music concerns whether artists should perform originals or covers. It’s a question of entertainment value versus artistic integrity, and one that each performer must answer individually. From the […]
As the scars from 9/11 continue to heal, it will always haunt the memories of those who experienced it, even from the distance of a TV set. It transformed lives, turning ordinary people into heroes; even now, how the tragedy […]
Driving N Cryin were a band that I discovered via top 40 radio… back in 1990 or so. They had a couple of hit tunes off and album that did well and brought in a bunch of new fans.. They […]
Track 1: upbeat tempo with somewhat scathing lyrics. Somewhat predictable musically, but does have that hypnotic quality unique to these guys that holds the listener, despite its somewhat predictable… Track 2: terrific live song. Track 3: good radio […]
The formula for a folk pop duo with acoustic guitars has been a long staple of the music world and Simon and Garfunkel, the Everly Brothers and the Indigo Girls wrote the book on how to make it successful. Seattle […]
Primal Southern gospel-blues It turns out that there are still howling, primal blues talents left to be discovered, and Mississippi native Leo Welch is one. After cold-calling Fat Possum’s Big Legal Mess label, he auditioned over the phone and reawakened […]
By Douglas Heselgrave In purely visual terms, there has never been a better argument put forward for the continued existence of the physical CD format than ‘Orient-Occident II: Hommage a la Syrie’ provides. The idea that the packaging, artwork and […]
Some dream bils have yet to be dreamed of, but happen anyway. That’s one way to describe the double-header show at McCabe’s Guitar Store in Santa Monica last Saturday, January 18. The week before the National Association for Music Merchant’s […]
There are times in the life of a music critic when you see a show or hear an album and all you really want to say is “holy shit.” Analysing guitar solos and parsing the energy between people on a […]
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